Monday, November 30, 2009

Iron Man 2 Movie Poster Revealed


It looks like we will be getting to see the War Machine armor in action!

Click here for more pics from the upcoming movie.

Sunday, November 29, 2009

Tina Fey & Steve Carell . . . The Last Action Heroes?

Claire and Phil Foster (Tina Fey and Steve Carell) are a typical suburban couple whose lives including their weekly date nights of dinner and a movie have become routine. To reignite the marital spark, they visit a trendy Manhattan bistro where a case of mistaken identity turns their evening into the ultimate date night-gone-awry. But as Claire and Phil take their unexpected walk on the wild side, they begin to remember what made them so special together.

Saturday, November 28, 2009

An Interesting Look At Oprah & Tyler Perry's Precious

A film as lost as the girl it glorifies

By Courtland Milloy

Now that I have seen the movie "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," I'm all the more bewildered by its enthusiastic reception, especially in the white media. The fictional story revolves around a black teenager, Claireece "Precious" Jones, who is raped by her father, gets pregnant by him -- twice -- and endures the depravity of her psychopathic mother.

The Huffington Post raved: "This is a film that doesn't shy away from the depths to which human beings can sink. . . ." You'd think the movie was a documentary.

The independent film, directed by Lee Daniels and adapted from a 1996 novel by the poet Sapphire, raked in an impressive $6 million during its weekend debut. Little wonder, though, given all the media buzz.

The New York Times Magazine featured the movie as a cover story last month and declared: "Precious is a stand-in for anyone -- black, white, male, female -- who has ever been devalued or underestimated."

Let's see: I lose my job, so I take in a movie about a serially abused black girl and I go, "Oh, swell, she's standing in for me."

Maybe there is something to the notion that when human pathology is given a black face, white people don't have to feel so bad about their own. At least somebody's happy.

Sexual abuse is certainly an equal-opportunity crime, with black and white women similarly affected. But only exaggerated black depravity seems to resonate so forcefully in the imagination.


White suburban boys are so fascinated by it that they fueled an explosion of gangsta rap -- misogynistic lyrics against a backdrop of booty-shaking black women.

Of course, "Precious" would not have received nearly as much media buzz if Oprah Winfrey and Tyler "Madea" Perry had not signed on as executive producers. Oddly, neither has made a movie about rising above a challenging background and becoming a wealthy and influential entertainer.

Asked by Entertainment Weekly magazine why she got involved with the project, Oprah said: "I realized that, Jesus, I have seen that girl a million times. I see that girl every morning on the way to work, I see her standing on the corner, I see her waiting for the bus as I'm passing in my limo, I see her coming out of the drugstore, and she's been invisible to me."

Instead of making a movie about how she beat the odds, Oprah has taken to divining ugly life stories from black girls she passes in her limo. Maybe the Obama girls should stay off the sidewalk for a while.

In "Precious," Oprah and Perry have helped serve up a film of prurient interest that has about as much redeeming social value as a porn flick. In it, we glimpse a sweaty, faceless brute of a black man raping the girl while her mother watches from a doorway. Two children are conceived in incest.

"The Jones family home is an amber-lit hell, and we're not initially sure whether Precious is a prisoner or a participant in it," says Time magazine. "The movie allows moments of judging Precious . . . then begins to roll out a series of nightmares that last the whole day long: rape, incest and a mother so lacking in human decency that she not only aided in a father's lust for a child but also considered the child as a witting rival."

Rolling Stone gave "Precious" 3.5 stars out of four. Three X's would be more like it.

I watched the movie at a theater in Alexandria where showtimes are nearly around the clock, from 10:15 a.m. to 12:15 a.m. The audience was mostly black women and teenagers. When the lights came up, all of the moviegoers appeared sullen and depressed.

After escaping the abuse of her home life, Precious ends up in a halfway house. She is still functionally illiterate and has two babies to care for, one with Down syndrome.

Strangest of all, many reviewers felt the movie ended on a high note. Time, for instance, wrote that Precious "makes an utterly believable and electrifying rise from an urban abyss of ignorance and neglect."

Excuse me, the movie ends with the girl walking the streets, babies in her arms, having just learned that her father has died of AIDS -- but not before infecting her.

The story is set in 1987, before AIDS treatment became widely available. Precious is as good as dead.

At the Cannes Film Festival, members of a mostly white audience gave "Precious" a 15-minute standing ovation.

I guess they can hardly wait for the sequel.

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Super Street Fighter IV - New Contender Trailer

Lupe Fiasco - Enemy Of The State Mixtape




Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Jay Smooth on Beanie Sigel & Jay-Z

Jay Smooth finally chimes in on this, this & this.

Monday, November 23, 2009

Amazon.com mp3 Sale!!!

For a limited time you can knock $3 off of any purchase made through Amazon's mp3 store.


Promotional offer is valid from November 23, 2009 12:00 AM PST through November 30, 2009 11:59 PM PST. You must redeem the code by November 30, 2009 11:59 PM PST.

If you've previously entered a promotional code, clicking the "Enter Your Code" button above will show your remaining balance.

After your purchase, you can confirm the dollar amount of the code was applied by checking your order confirmation, which will be sent to you by e-mail.

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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Google Chrome OS Open Source Project Announcement

Google Chrome OS is an open source operating system for people who spend most of their time on the web built around the core tenets of speed, simplicity and security. Chromium.org

Friday, November 20, 2009

Google Makes Life Easier For Audiophiles



Have you done a google search for a song or artist, lately? If you have you may have noticed a slight change in your search results. Here's the story behind that.

. . . search and more easily discover millions of songs, all via a simple Google web search. If you're searching for music, "time to result" is really "time to music." Now, when you enter a music-related query — like the name of a song, artist or album — your search results will include links to an audio preview of those songs provided by our music search partners Myspace (which just acquired iLike) or Lala. When you click the result you'll be able to listen to an audio preview of the song directly from one of those partners.

If a song is popular enough, you can even possibly find it by just doing a search of it chorus or hook.

Many times, though, you don't know the name of the song or the artist who sings it. Maybe you remember only the chorus — or maybe you remember who sang it, but you forgot the exact name of the song. If you've ever heard a catchy song in a car or cafe, but just can't figure out the name of the song, you'll know what I'm talking about. This search feature also helps you find many of those songs by entering a search containing a line or two of lyrics.



For more info on this new feature, take a look at Google's Blog.

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DJ Green Lantern & Emilio Rojas - The Natural Mixtape



Tuesday, November 17, 2009

What's the first thought that enters your mind after viewing this?

I have an opinion, but I want to know what you think without input from me. They are definitely piggybacking off of Chris Rock's documentary.

Black Thought - The Professional

Apparently this was from a mixtape of his that never was from 2004. The track is just more evidence of why Mr. Trotter's top 5, dead or alive.




Friday, November 13, 2009

J Davey - Smells Like Teen Spirit [Live]

J*Davey @ the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles.



Special thanks to Evette on the dope video.

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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Doug Fischer Preps Us For Pacquiao/Cotto

In my mind Doug Fischer is the best boxing writer out there. I've followed him from Maxboxing.com to The Ring. If you are any kind of boxing fan he is a must read. He maybe young, but he knows the history of boxing and gives great analysis. Max Kellerman should take notes.



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P.S. If you are a boxing fan or have any interest in the sport, I highly recommend that you at the very least check out his weekly mailbags. You will learn a lot even if you aren't up on the history of the sport or what's going on currently.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

EA Sports Throws It's Hat In The MMA Ring




EA SPORTS MMA will feature the most authentic, intense and broad mixed martial arts experience to date - complete with a vast array of top fighters and fighting styles from around the world. EA SPORTS MMA will be available on the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system and the PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system in 2010.

"We are very excited to be working with STRIKEFORCE and feature them as a premier league in our game," said Executive Producer Dale Jackson. "They have a wealth of mixed martial arts expertise, put on great shows and have a great stable of top-notch fighters. Together we look forward to growing the sport and delivering an immersive interactive gaming experience."


You can keep up with the game developments at Twitter.com/EASportsMMA

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Source

Wiz Khalifa - Burn After Rolling Mixtape





Monday, November 2, 2009

Random Geekery: Metal Gear Solid Movie

Metal Gear Solid: Philanthropy is a fanmovie inspired by Hideo Kojima's videogame series "Metal Gear Solid".



If you'd like to learn more about the film or even download it, go to MGS-Philanthropy.net.